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One Platform To Operate Your Early Years Service.

Software and sector expertise to simplify administration, management, and communication.
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Resources for Early Years settings in Ireland

Trusted by Irish Early Years providers for over 25 years.

Partners we work with and collaborate to support Early Years Providers

Getting Started Is Easy.

Step 1: Register

Register Your Service

Keep your details updated and access free sector resources and updates.
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Step 2: Book a Demo

Book a Demo

See how the platform supports your setting, with no obligation or financial commitment.
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Top 3 Benefits

As Reported By Users

Maintaining Sustainability

We understand the challenge in Ireland for Early Years Services and often are involved in turning around services with sustainability issues. The backbone of the EYCEsoft platform is managing the booking and funding programs ECCE, NCS in Ireland to ensure your Service operates on a financially sound basis.

Supporting Compliance

We understand that no software application can make you compliant but the EYCEsoft platform was designed over the last 10 years based on our deep knowledge of the compliance and regulation requirements for Early Years Providers in Ireland. We constantly work with government departments, and agencies such as Tusla, Pobal etc to support providers.

Enhancing
Quality of Service

EYCEsoft as a platform enables a systems led approach to Early Years service provision that drives quality of care and education for the child, better communication and collaboration with parents. Software that minimises staff time on administration to prioritise the child.

Supporting Compliance

We understand that no software application can make you compliant but the EYCEsoft platform was designed over the last 10 years based on our deep knowledge of the compliance and regulation requirements for Early Years Providers in Ireland. We constantly work with government departments, and agencies such as Tusla, Pobal etc to support providers.

Enhancing
Quality of Service

EYCEsoft as a platform enables a systems led approach to Early Years service provision that drives quality of care and education for the child, better communication and collaboration with parents. Software that minimises staff time on administration to prioritise the child.

Maintaining Sustainability

We understand the challenge in Ireland for Early Years Services and often are involved in turning around services with sustainability issues. The backbone of the EYCEsoft platform is managing the booking and funding programs ECCE, NCS in Ireland to ensure your Service operates on a financially sound basis.

Key Features

As Reported By Users

Family Communication and Collaboration

EYCEsoft keeps the child at the centre while enabling seamless communication with parents and guardians. It supports the full journey from enquiry and registration through to school transition. Parents are fully integrated into their child’s record, with easy access to daily updates, activities, reports, and key information via the free Parent Portal app.

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Reducing the Administration Burden

EYCEsoft streamlines operations with a single, centralised database for managing your setting. Stay inspection-ready with real-time visibility, accurate billing, and funding integration. The platform supports digital registrations, e-signatures, and integrates with accounting systems while enabling payments and automated collections.

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Managing the Room

EYCEsoft empowers staff to focus on delivering high-quality care and education. It simplifies recording daily activities, enhances team communication, and keeps everyone aligned. Designed for efficiency, it reduces screen time so staff can spend more time engaging with children

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Family Communication and Collaboration

  • While the child is central on the EYCEsoft platform, the system also facilitates the key communication with parents and other nominated guardians. There is comprehensive functionality for onboarding of children from new enquires, to waiting list, registration and then finally leaving transitioning to school.
  • With EYCEsoft, Parents and Guardians are an integral part of a child’s record and journey, with communication, sleep, food, Bio/hygiene, activity, observation logs, accident and incident reporting , medication administration, shared easily.
  • EYCEsoft includes a FREE Parent Portal application that shares their child(ren) experience. The Service Provider simply invites the parent to access the application to follow the daily journey of their child, communication, access notices documents (e.g. parent handbook), consent forms, request bookings, make payments, look up their account.
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Reducing the Administration Burden

  • One database to hold all your data and administrate your setting(s) as well as manage daily operations. Quick lookup to see what actions are pending and what is priority. Always be inspection ready. Make sure billing is accurate with funding applied as per the HIVE information given and copayment collection is timely and cost effective.
  • Complete visibility from any location and at any time of the status of each room provided and often alert of issues that need urgent attention. The platform supports digital signatures for consent forms, online registration and integrates to 3rd party systems such accounts system (Sage, Xero, Business Central) as well as accepting card payments and generating bank SEPA Direct Debit files without 3rd party software.
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Managing the Room

  • Enable staff to provide the best possible focus on care and education of the children by using EYCEsoft to lookup and record the child’s day as well as engage with parents where necessary. EYCEsoft facilitates staff communication and team work so that everyone is working in unison to give the child the best experience in your setting.
  • EYCEsoft is designed to minimise the time staff need to dedicate to the screen away from the children.
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Meet The People

Behind EYCEsoft by Canavan Byrne is a team of professionals with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the main pillars that hold this platform up: HR, Management, Software and Most Importantly Childcare.
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Frank Corr

CEO
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Gema Dorta

Early Years Specialist and HR Advisor
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Ivana Przetak

Early Years Specialist
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Frank Corr

CEO

Andreas Lovbrand

Technical Director

Guilherme Prado

Development Lead

Meet The People

Behind EYCEsoft by Canavan Byrne is a team of professionals with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the main pillars that hold this platform up: HR, Management, Software and Most Importantly Childcare.
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Angela Canavan

CEO
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Aimee Groves

Manager, Head of Compliance and Certified Mediator
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Eóin Cusack

Head of Training and Health and Safety, eLearning Developer
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Frank Corr

Finance & IT Director
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Gema Dorta

Early Years Specialist and HR Advisor
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Ivana Przetak

Early Years Specialist
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Lisa Boyne

Accounts
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Orla McMahon

HR Assistant and Support Coordinator

Our Success Stories

Since introducing EYCE Soft in 2018, our operations have completely transformed.

The system has significantly improved our financial management, invoicing, and funding scheme administration, while also strengthening our compliance and record-keeping.

It has brought real efficiency to how we run our service and has become an essential part of our day-to-day operations.
Ashling & Mide
Explorers Afterschool
We currently use EYCE Soft as part of our operations, and it has made a real difference to how we manage our service.

The platform supports our compliance, record-keeping, and overall organisation, helping ensure everything stays aligned with the latest sector requirements.

It’s a reliable, professional solution that we would highly recommend to any early years provider.
Fiona Houston
Manager, Donard/Glen Daycare
It is easy to use. I like the layout and many of the features.

I also find the support I receive is always clear, easy to understand, and prompt.
Áine
Treetops Daycare
Takes care of all of our creche–family interactions, from registrations to invoicing systems.

All of our information is held in one system. We can view all rooms, see where children are, and access a complete financial overview to support planning and room transitions.
Leila
Manager, Crumlin Childcare Centre
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